Financial Systems Accountants recruitment
The team that this role sits in is responsible for the maintenance and development of the systems used by the organisation for Statutory Reporting and Budgeting. The team’s goal is to ensure systems used by the department allow timely and accurate reporting of information to Senior Managers and external regulators.
In addition to this the team also has responsibility for submitting the monthly financial results for the organisation to Head Office. This process requires a close working relationship with colleagues in both UK and offshore.
Your main responsibilities will involve:
Enhance the financial reporting and budgeting systems and processes to ensure customers always receive an excellent customer experience
Proactively seek opportunities for process improvement and deliver solutions to address them both within the team and finance as a whole
Ensure supplementary information requirements are delivered to deadlines requiring some flexibility in working hours
Acting as a technical consultant, providing best use advise on our financial reporting and budgeting systems
Managing the end to end delivery of Finance Reporting Systems projects
Maintain compliance to all internal controls
Your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
Excellent technical skills; extensive experience of developing applications in Excel using VBA utilising the Essbase API. Knowledge of Cognos, Walker, SQL highly desirable
Strong communication skills, both written and oral
Ability to directly analyse problems faced by the customer
Experience of operating in the financial services industry
Able to prioritise and deliver to tight deadlines